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The song I\u2019ve sent you this week was the extended version of a jingle I did for Norman Thomas on Radio City. It was for a daily competition he used to have on his programme called \u201cWhat have I got in my hand\u201d whereby he would give out clues as to what he was holding and the public phoned in with their guesses\u2026.the winner getting 20 quid. It was really funny stuff and Norman did a great job\u2026he sadly died a few years ago\u2026.I did quite a bit of stuff for him\u2026he was a great bloke\n\nI watched the Michael Buble Christmas show just before Xmas and was well impressed\u2026I thought it was real quality\u2026unlike the John Bishop comedy show\u2026whatever happened to FUNNY\u2026he wasn\u2019t even slightly funny and the string of comedians he had on weren\u2019t much better\u2026.these guys are in serious need of good comedy writers\u2026they seem to think they can do it on their own\u2026they are wrong.\n\nI went up to Carnforth in The Lake District for a few days up to Xmas Eve to take in the ambience\u2026.it BUCKETED down so Bowness didn\u2019t look too Chistmassy\u2026.then we spent a reasonably dry day in Lancaster\u2026which is one of my favourite cities\u2026.it has a certain magical charm about it with it\u2019s collection of shops and restaurants and the wonderful castle\u2026great place to visit.\n\nI wish someone would start a movement to ban played out Christmas records on TV and radio\u2026.while travelling up to the Lakes we had radio 2 on\u2026.one after the other\u2026simply having a wonderful Christmas time\u2026all I want for Christmas is you\u2026.have yourself a merry little Christmas\u2026etc etc etc\u2026for goodness sake GIVE US A BREAK !!!\u2026is there no imagination in the world\u2026there MUST be new songs out there\u2026thank goodness it\u2019s over\u2026I can\u2019t take much more.\n\nThe Krankies panto in Glasgow has received great reviews\u2026they were on with John Barrowman in Cinderella\u2026.the panto includes all sorts of effects including 3D\u2026.where a giant spider wreaks havoc over the audience\u2026The Krankies are friends of mine and I have written loads of stuff for them over the years\u2026for this panto I wrote a parody of Miley Cirus\u2019s \u201cwrecking ball\u201d\u2026...I\u2019d be on for a free ticket but it\u2019s a bit far away.